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AWB : Ellipsis in French/Russian/Ukrainian not properly managed in AWB "general fixes"
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

What happens?:

  • If 'Apply general fixes" is marked, AWB wants to replace the single character "…" (i.e. 3 dots in a SINGLE character) by "..." (i.e. 3 dots as 3 times the "simple dot" character)
  • Please note that If "Apply general fixes" is NOT marked, AWB does NOT replace this. It proves that feature is managed in the "General fixes"

What should have happened instead?:
AWB should NOT change this, as in French the ellipsis is normally written as a SINGLE character, as explained in the page : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Points_de_suspension#Usage

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):
AWB 6.4.0.0 SVN 12927 (19th of Feb 2025)

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

Event Timeline

When JJMC89 merged it, they lost that for Russian we ask the same.

Hello,

It is also violates ukwiki rule.

P.S. AWB should NOT change this, as in Ukrainian the ellipsis is normally written as a SINGLE character.

A.sav renamed this task from AWB : Ellipsis in French not properly managed in AWB "general fixes" to AWB : Ellipsis in French/Russian/Ukrainian not properly managed in AWB "general fixes".Jul 14 2025, 10:47 AM
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Was added under T337532

rev 12999 Restrict ellipsis conversion (from T337532) to en-wiki only.

Will be in next release of AWB. You can enable "Options -> Do not apply WP:MOS fixes" in the meantime to prevent this when unwanted on non-en wikis.

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Re-opening because the fix causes a build failure in UnitTests Release configuration (use of WikiFunctions:Variables:SetProjectLangCode). That doesn't affect building the app.

rev 13000 add missing DEBUG condition to unit test